Results for "Misha Tsiganov"

Misha Tsiganov: Misha's Wishes

by Edward Blanco
March 29, 2022

New York-based pianist and composer Misha Tsiganov, a well-established jazz veteran having appeared on countless albums throughout his career, presents his seventh recording as leader with Misha's Wishes, conceived and birthed during the COVID pandemic, when his time at home offered the perfect opportunity to develop this project. The long-time isolation during 2020 allowed the pianist ...

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Misha Tsiganov: Playing With The Wind

by Dan Bilawsky
April 2, 2019

Pianist Misha Tsiganov seems to further his creative reach with each date he delivers. While calculation and supreme specificity with the pen always help to keep things grounded in his music, the level of daring in Tsiganov's compositions and the high degree of spontaneity he brings to the fore through his piano help to continually push ...

Playing With The Wind

By Misha Tsiganov

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2018
Track listing: Playing With The Wind; Mama; Witch Hunt; Orange Dream; Dram Catcher; Cry Me A River; Virgo; To Ne Veter Vetku Klonit (No, It's Not A Branch Bowing To The Wind); The Very Thought Of You.

Hendrik Meurkens/Bill Cunliffe: Cabin In The Sky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 30, 2018

Hendrik Meurkens is a natural-born collaborator. That statement might smack of the obvious, as jazz musicians on the whole tend to thrive on a synergistic model, but it need be said with regard to this German-born, New York-based harmonica hero (and vibraphonist of note). Whether engaging in a pas de deux with pianist Misha Tsiganov, sharing ...

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017

by Thomas Conrad
July 11, 2017

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017 Lviv, Ukraine June 23-27, 2017 Jazz festivals are different in Europe. There are more of them, and they are crucial to the economic viability, social solidarity and creative evolution of the jazz art form. Many European towns that host their own annual jazz events seem like ...

Spring Feelings

By Misha Tsiganov

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2016
Track listing: You and The Night and The Music; Jed's Place; October in Kiev; Yes or No; Jumping Michael; Infant Eyes; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Blues for Gerry; Spring Feelings

Gabriel Espinosa: Songs Of Bacharach And Manzanero

by Dan Bilawsky
December 12, 2016

American pop sophisticate Burt Bacharach and Mexican bolero icon Armando Manzanero may not seem like a good fit for a binary tribute album, but that combination actually works. Why, you ask? The answer is fairly simple: When you boil down the music that each of those men created, you're left with indelible melodies, beautiful and colorful ...

Misha Tsiganov: Spring Feelings

by Edward Blanco
March 20, 2016

Russian-born pianist extraordinaire Misha Tsiganov delivers his second album and follow up to his highly-acclaimed Criss Cross Jazz label debut The Artistry of The Standard, with the thoroughly enthralling and enchanting Spring Feelings presenting a superb selection of five outrages originals and four reimagined standards in one exquisite package of post-bop burners. Before recoding the label ...

Sun Ra Arkestra Headlines 2nd Annual Beacon Jazz Festival -- June 25, Riverfront Park, Beacon, NY

March 18, 2016

The legendary cosmic jazz of Sun Ra Arkestra—under the direction of their longtime, nonagenarian alto saxophonist, Marshall Allen—headlines the second annual Beacon Jazz Festival. Sponsored by Birches Associates and once more celebrating this quintessential American music, alongside the distilleries, craft vendors, culture and natural splendor of the Hudson Valley, the second Beacon Jazz Festival will take ...